NYSE:BGG - Briggs & Stratton Stock Price, Forecast & News

Briggs & Stratton trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BGG."

Briggs & Stratton declared a quarterly dividend on Thursday, October 31st. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, December 18th will be paid a dividend of $0.05 per share on Friday, January 3rd. This represents a $0.20 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 6.06%. The ex-dividend date is Tuesday, December 17th. View Briggs & Stratton's Dividend History.

Briggs & Stratton announced that its board has initiated a share buyback plan on Wednesday, April 25th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $50,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 5.8% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

Briggs & Stratton Co. (NYSE:BGG) issued its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The industrial products company reported ($0.20) earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of ($0.13) by $0.07. The industrial products company had revenue of $437.90 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $458.87 million. The company's quarterly revenue was down 13.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the business earned $0.20 EPS. View Briggs & Stratton's Earnings History.

Briggs & Stratton is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, April 23rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Briggs & Stratton.

Briggs & Stratton updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $0.05-0.33 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $0.20. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.83-1.97 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.90 billion.

1 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Briggs & Stratton in the last year. There are currently 1 buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Briggs & Stratton.

News articles about BGG stock have trended neutral this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. InfoTrie ranks the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Briggs & Stratton earned a news impact score of 0.2 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave headlines about the industrial products company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next several days. View News Stories for Briggs & Stratton.

Briggs & Stratton saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 10,740,000 shares, an increase of 11.4% from the January 15th total of 9,640,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 952,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 11.3 days. Currently, 26.6% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Briggs & Stratton's Current Options Chain.

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Briggs & Stratton's stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Brandes Investment Partners LP (10.11%), State Street Corp (3.03%), Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc. (2.57%), Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. (2.52%), LSV Asset Management (2.46%) and Credit Suisse AG (2.02%). Company insiders that own Briggs & Stratton stock include David J Rodgers, Frank M Jaehnert, Jeffrey Michael Zeiler, Rachele Marie Lehr and Todd J Teske. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Briggs & Stratton.

BGG stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including LSV Asset Management, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Brandes Investment Partners LP, Financial Counselors Inc., Trexquant Investment LP, Arizona State Retirement System, Cambridge Investment Research Advisors Inc. and Bank of America Corp DE. View Insider Buying and Selling for Briggs & Stratton.

BGG stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Jacobs Levy Equity Management Inc., Credit Suisse AG, Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Great West Life Assurance Co. Can, State Street Corp, UBS Group AG and Russell Investments Group Ltd.. Company insiders that have bought Briggs & Stratton stock in the last two years include David J Rodgers, Frank M Jaehnert, Jeffrey Michael Zeiler and Rachele Marie Lehr. View Insider Buying and Selling for Briggs & Stratton.

Shares of BGG can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BGG stock can currently be purchased for approximately $3.30.